Well, this post is not really about inflation or deflation, but since so many people consider that inflation is the same as prices increasing and that is the opposite, that's to say: deflation means pricing decreasing, I found this interesting piece of information in French, about prices in France, that I will sum up in English (the original is pasted below, sorry, I lost the source.)

The very interesting thing to understand from this article, is that prices have been increasing during the past several months, despite commodities prices collapsing (and the impacts coming from the current economic and financial mess). So here's what to remember from the article:

According to a study by Nielsen, prices in France have risen in January, with rice and pasta rising more than 10% (11.2% and 10.8% respectively). Prices rose by about 2% in January 2009 while they had risen "only" 2.5% in January 2008 (according to respectively January 2008 and January 2007).

Only a few prices declined and by very small amounts like frozen food (-1.8%), yogurts (-1.5%)...

All these tend to confirm my hypothesis that it's going to be a lot more difficult to see declining prices and rising ones, and that not only am I not sure to see deflation, but I am not sure neither to see declining general prices (although I expected and expect even further declines in asset prices like real estate, bonds, stock markets, specially in the US and UK).